Ekapan Banleurit is Bin Banleurit's twin.
He has played in many Thai horror films from 1985
to 1995 inclunding the famous serie "BAAN PHI POP"
(บ้านผีปอบ). Actress Trirak Rakkarndee was almost
always playing the lady ghost in his movies.

Two groups, led by Hua Jayae and Thao Lai Kan, are worshipping a tiger rock deity. They fight
against each other for the control of the village. A volcano eruption happens. A mysterious man
then appears on the rock. He is a great fighter. His name is Phi Seua. There is a belief that he
is the one depicted on old drawings inside a local cave. The deity guardian mentions that
Phi Seua is coming here to help Hua Jayae. In fact, Phi Seua accepts gold from both parties.
Phi Seua meets Mai Tho, young lady, who is part of a Padaung giraffe women village. As she is
assaulted by Thao Lai Kan's ruffians, Phi Seua helps her. As he protects the Padaung village, he is now
hunted by the two groups. Phi Seua then faces various criminals, i.e. the hell twins (แฝดนรก) played by
the real Banleurit twins, seven brothers with a face similar to famous actor Sangthong Sreesai (สังข์ทอง สีใส),
a big and fat ruffian commanding a Godzilla monster. Phi Seua then becomes the Padaung villager's trainer.
Phi Seua leaves the Padaung giraffe women village, which is then attacked. Mai Tho is kidnaped so Phi Seua has
to come back to help and defeat the bad guys. This movie is similar to a Manga story. It mixes
comedy and action. It has many references to famous movies such as Lord of the rings, the return of the Jedi,
western spaghetti, the Magnificent Seven. It includes many famous comic actors from decade 2000s.

Year: 2004

Thai title: 2508 ปิดกรมจับตาย

English title: Siamese Outlaws

Rating: 3

Director:

Main actor: Sombat Methanee,Krung Srivilai,Ekapan Banleurit

Main actress:

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This movie is taken from real events of 1965, when a big market robbery
occurred in Ayutthaya province. White Tiger, a notorious robber, teamed up with two
gangs to carry out his plan. But teams betrayed each other before money sharing.
A police inspector is then chasing them.

Year: 1991

Thai title: ผีย้ายวัด

English title:

Rating: 1

Director:

Main actor: Ekapan Banleurit

Main actress: Trirak Rakkarndee

A group of friends are playing cards with a group of bad boys.
They win against them and gain a lot of money. A fight starts and the bad boys have
to retreat. In order to take revenge, they kidnap one of the girl. Fearing for her
integrity, she commits suicide. Her ghost comes back and takes revenge over the bad boys.
She also chases part of her former friends as they hide her coffin and also to convince
them to stop gambling. This movie's coming up next part is "ผีย้ายวัด 2".

Year: 1990

Thai title: ตัณหาพระจันทร์ 2

English title: Midnights shade 2

Rating: 1

Director:

Main actor: Ekapan Banleurit

Main actress: Trirak Rakkarndee

A new doctor is arriving in a remote village. Villagers believe in
Phi Pop ghost. A "Phi Pop" (ผีปอบ) is an evil spirit believed to possess a person to eat
his intestine while also forcing him to seek and consume raw animal organs and meat
at night-time. An old man and his daughter are accused to be Phi Pop ghosts
as some villagers are killed. The doctor has to fight again the villagers' old
beliefs and find who has done the murders.

Year: 1990

Thai title: ล้างเผ่าพันธุ์โคตรผีปอบ

English title: Holocaust of the ogre clan

Rating: 1

Director:

Main actor: Ekapan Banleurit,Lak Apichat,Joomjim Khemlek

Main actress: Trirak Rakkarndee

Two young soldiers find a decomposed body in a bag floating on the river. They decide
to bury it. A spirit exits from the tomb and transforms itself into a beautiful lady called
Nuan (Trirak Rakkarndee). Nuan is given refuge in the soldiers’ home as she claims she
is on the way to Bangkok but it is already nighttime. Nuan loves immediately Cheut as
he is kind hearted man. It generates jealousy from Khun, the subdistrict headman’s
(กำนัน) daughter, as she also loves Cheut since a long time. The subdistrict headman
Son likes Nuan a lot and invites her to stay in his home as it is more comfortable than
Cheut's home. Other ladies having interest in the subdistrict headman in the village start
to be jealous of this Bangkok girl! The subdistrict headman follows up Nuan at nighttime
but then she becomes a ghost again. The two ladies Kamlai and Kamlong visit an
expert into magic (อาจารย์) to get special oil (น้ำมันพราย) to make a love filter (ยาเสน่ห์) to try seduce easier
the subdistrict headman. Meanwhile the village ruffians flee away when Nuan, beautiful
lady, taking a bath, becomes a ghost! The other villagers tell Cheut that Nuan is a
ghost. He flees from home and shelters at subdistrict headman’s home. They ask for a
local shaman’s (หมอผี) help. Nuan decides to get her husband back. But he refuses to
join her again. Nuan forces Cheut's friend to play the bait. Cheut goes back to her as he
is under a spell. Finally Nuan is defeated by the shaman. Many couples can now have
happiness and marry. As often during years 1988s-1993s, Ekapan Banleurit and Trirak
Rakkarndee are playing the main couple in those cheap horror Thai movies. Same old
tricks are used with ghostly skeletons and simple basic FX effects. Such movie includes
more gags than real horror. It was targeted for rural audience and not Bangkokian
audience. The scenario is very similar to Mae Nak (แม่นาค) traditional old story where the
young man loves and lives with a ghost without knowing it (ผีหลอก!). This movie is
released by Lepso Studio. Image and sound quality are quite poor. Once again the title
is wrong. It is named “ล้างเผ่าพันธุ์โคตรผีปอบ” (Holocaust of the ogre clan) but there is not a
single ogre (ผีปอบ) in the movie. The VCD cover belongs to another movie called
“ปีศาจแมงมุมสาว”. The real name of this movie seems to be "ต้นตระกูลปอบ".

Year: 1990

Thai title: บ้านผีปอบ 2

English title:

Rating: 1

Director:

Main actor: Ekapan Banleurit

Main actress: Trirak Rakkarndee,Natanee Sitthisaman

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The second opus of บ้านผีปอบ continues with the same characters.
The hunter is killed. New murders happen and intestines are always missing inside
the bodies. Those murders are done by the village head's daughter, Kradeung (กระดึง),
who is possessed by a "Phi Pop" (ผีปอบ) spirit. It takes appereance of Pla Pleung to
accuse her. A second "Phi Pop" spirit is also hanging around. It has the apperance
of a middle age woman, Ya Yip (หยิบ). The two "Phi Pop" are fighting together
over the village territory possession. Villagers now know that Kradeung is a "Phi Pop".
They organize a "Phi Pop" hunt that turns to a fiasco. A powerful sorcerer (หมอผี) comes
to the village. It gets rid of Ya Yip "Phi Pop" first but fails with Kradeung.
Finally the doctor Ret and Pla Pleung succeed to remove the "Phi Pop" ghost from
Kradeung body but the second "Phi Pop" is still hanging around...
Same as the first opus, this movie mixes horror, comic and a few salacious jokes in a rural
context. "Phi Pop" is a traditional ghost in villages so many gags are based on rural
life, i.e. men drinking together at night time and believing ghost visions are due to alcohol,
woman wearing a tight traditional sarong (ผ้าถุง) and bathing in a pond with male villagers
dreaming the sarong will slip down, classic gag when actors chased by a ghost enter water jars
and exit from other jars... There are always comic pursuits between ghost and actors in
accelerated motion. This opus contains bad cuts or maybe some censure. The first opus
was shot in 7 days but the further opus were shot within 10 to 20 days.

Year: 1990

Thai title: ปอบผีเฮี้ยน

English title:

Rating: 1

Director:

Main actor: Ekapan Banleurit

Main actress: Trirak Rakkarndee,Metta Roongrat

Same actors from "Baan Phi Pop 1 and 2" are playing in this Phi Pop
movie. Rich trader people (คนเศรษฐี) want to buy land from grant-mother Chom but she refuses.
She is living with her daughter Kaew (Trirak Rakkarndee). Ruffians are sent to expel
them but they are killed by the grant-mother Chom, who is a "Phi Pop" ghost.
Many deaths happen in the village due to the presence of a "Phi Pop" ghost.
Villagers are fed up and decide to use a sorcerer (หมอผี) to exorcise the village.
The grant-mother Chom is defeated by the sorcerer and dies. Before dying, the "Phi Pop"
spirit is transferred from the grant-mother to Kaew. Phalat (Ekapan Banleurit), the new
village headman (กำนัน), promises to take care of Kaew. The rich trader tries to abuse
Kaew but he gets killed by the "Phi Pop" ghost also. The son of the rich family has a poor
girlfriend, Plaew, from the village. She is now pregnant so the son forces her to abort and
causes Plaew's death. Being pursued by villagers, the "Phi Pop" ghost transfers from Kaew
to Plaew. Plaew kills her bad boyfriend. Phalat has difficulty to reason villagers
wishing to exercise their law versus the official law. They use a sorcerer again but this time
it fails. In a hurry ending, another master neutralizes the "Phi Pop", who transfers again to
another lady from the village. This movie uses same recipe as "BAAN PHI POP" (บ้านผีปอบ)
movie serie, i.e. a mix of horror, comedy, a tint of salacious jokes. It opposes the village
world (Chinese rich trader unable to speak Thai properly, watching movie in temple...) versus the Bangkok
world (stereotype and mannerism from ผู้ดีจากกรุงเทพ...). This B type movie uses strong side lights and
smoke for night scary scenes. The poor editing jumps easily from the night scene to day scene in a
same sequence.

Year: 1989

Thai title: บ้านผีปอบ

English title:

Rating: 2

Director:

Main actor: Ekapan Banleurit

Main actress: Trirak Rakkarndee

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A "Phi Pop" (ผีปอบ) is an evil spirit believed to possess a person to eat his intestine
while also forcing him to seek and consume raw animal organs and meat at night-time.
A birth happens in a village. Umbilical cord needs to be buried as "Phi Pop" ghost loves such
fresh bloody food. The man, who was supposed to perform this task, is found dead. Villagers
suspect a "Phi Pop" is responsible of the murder and they believe a "Phi Pop" is living inside
the body of an old grandmother. The grandmother, called Thongkam (ทองคำ), is cured and helped by a
young woman called Pla Pleung. Some medical students drop by villages and provide free
caring for villagers. Khun Ret is the chief doctor. One night, while camping, they are
attacked by the grandmother "Phi Pop". They are saved by Pla Pleung. The village head
brings a sorcerer (หมอผี) to exorcise the grandmother. He hits her with a stick.
Confrontation between the sorcerer and docter Ret happens. The sorcerer retreats.
The same night the sorcerer is killed by the "Phi Pop". The village head's daughter has
strong interest into doctor Ret and is jealous regarding other women being close to him,
i.e. Pla Pleung and Ret's assistant. A hunter arrives in the village to get rid of "Phi Pop".
Things get out of control as the villagers don't listen to doctor Ret anymore. Pla Pleung
and the grandmother has to flee. The village head's daughter kills Ret's assistant as no ladies
shall be between her and doctor Ret. The grandmother sees this and transfers her saliva
to the village head's daughter, who now becomes a "Phi Pop". The grandmother dies but a new
"Phi Pop" is now in the village and nobody knows it yet...
This first opus includes a small budget (400 000 Baht), a mix of light horror, comedy and
tint of erotism. The movie was shot in 7 days. Characters are similar to traditional theatre
"Like" (ลิเก), i.e. the leading actor (พระเอก), the leading actress (นางเอก), the jealous girl (นางเอก),
the funny and hilarious friends (ตัวตลก). There are always comic pursuits between ghost and actors in
accelerated motion. This horror movie is dedicated for countryside spectators with a story
happening in rural village. Bangkokian people are seen as outsiders and are not trust.
They are well known to have seduce girls then dropped them. Pla Pleung had some concerns
on doctor Ret. "Baan Phi Pop 1" was even shot in 16mm format so reduce the costs. Dubbing
was done later in studio.